I think it’s important to always offer something new.
TOM PETTYIf I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.
More Tom Petty Quotes
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If you stretch your imagination, I’ll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn’t up for sale.
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I’m barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.
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You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.
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We don’t really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we’ve been taken for granted.
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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
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Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
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The waiting is the hardest part.
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I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.
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You spend your life dreaming, running ’round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.
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Some grow young, some grow cold.
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I love history, doesn’t matter what era, I’m fascinated.
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I wouldn’t want to get stuck being an oldie-goldie group, but I don’t mind. I think all the trouble you go through these days to go to one of these concerts, I think I owe them a bit of what they came to hear.
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Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.
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She’s a good girl, crazy about Elvis, loves horses, and her boyfriend, too.
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There’s a freeway running through the yard.
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If you look around at America, that’s one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
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You believe what you want to believe.
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When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you’ve always got a different ache or pain.
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I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.
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So I started out for God knows where. I guess I’ll know when I get there.
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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
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Last dance with Mary Jane One more time to kill the pain I feel summer creepin’ in and I’m Tired of this town again.
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I’m not trying to be cool. I have a problem with lights. I have one eye that’s become super-sensitive to lighting, so I do wear sunglasses quite a bit.
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Honey, don’t walk out, I’m too drunk to follow.
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We could move catalog, if he’d only die quicker.
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